Bodleian Library

In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison , Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison , a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the...

He was about twenty-two, and had finished his apprenticeship to become a Freeman of the Stationers' Company earlier this year. He was grandson of Thomas James , first Keeper of the Bodleian Library in Oxford...

AB 's biographer Janet Todd identifies Amyntas, her London lover after her Antwerp period, as Jeffrey Boys , a young lawyer. He called her Astrea. His diary for 1667, now in the Bodleian Library

While there he did free-lance translations and edited school texts to support his family. In August 1894 he moved the family back to England, to live in Oxford, where he did literary research...

When CO was eight her father took her on a first visit to the Bodleian Library ; she came home and asked for a bookcase for her next birthday. At this age she worshippedShelley

Reading in the Bodleian for her very first essay (on the topic Who were the Jutes?) conveyed to her that this was a question with no simple answer: people were still arguing about it...

She embarked on a course of independent study at the Bodleian Library , concentrating on Spanish literature and history.

Following her marriage and during her child-bearing years, she also continued to pursue her intellectual career, reading at the Bodleian , and devoting much of the 1870s to history and criticism.